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Ravi Shakar: 1920 - 2012

With an instrument perplexing to most Westerners, Ravi Shankar helped connect the world through
music. The sitar virtuoso hobnobbed with the Beatles, became a hippie musical icon and spearheaded
the first rock benefit concert as he introduced traditional Indian ragas to Western audiences over
nearly a century.

Lawrence K. Ho | Los Angeles Times/MCTWith an instrument perplexing to most Westerners, Ravi Shankar helped connect the world through music. The sitar virtuoso hobnobbed with the Beatles, became a hippie musical icon and spearheaded the first rock benefit concert as he introduced traditional Indian ragas to Western audiences over nearly a century.Request to buy this photo

File photoAs early as the 1950s, Ravi Shankar began collaborating with and teaching some of the greats of Western music, including violinist Menuhin and jazz saxophonist Coltrane.Request to buy this photo

Mark Goff | AP photoShankar performs during the opening day at the Woodstock music festival. He also played a four-hour set at the Monterey Pop Festival.Request to buy this photo

AP photo/PAGeorge Harrison, left, and Indian musician Ravi Shankar sit at London's Royal Albert Hall prior to "Ravi Shankar's Music festival from India" in 1974. Harrison grew fascinated with the sitar and sought out Shankar, already a musical icon in India, to teach him to play it properly.Request to buy this photo

Bikas Das | AP file photoRavi Shankar, right, and daughter Anoushka Shankar smile during a press conference in Calcutta, India in 2002. Shankar, the father of Norah Jones, said that it was a joy seeing Norah get so many Grammy Awards in 2003.Request to buy this photo

Gurinder Osan | AP file photoRavi Shankar and his daughter Anoushka Shankar laugh during the shooting of a film endorsing the strengthening of Indian laws against animal cruelty in New Delhi.Request to buy this photo

Rajesh Kumar Singh | AP photoAn Indian student pays tribute to Ravi Shankar at the Bengali Tola Inter College in Varanasi, where he was born, in India. Shankar is credited with connecting the world to Indian music.Request to buy this photo

Rajesh Kumar Singh | AP photoIndian students light candles to pay tribute Shankar. "He was legend of legends," Shivkumar Sharma, a noted santoor player who performed with Shankar, told Indian media. "Indian classical was not at all known in the Western world. He was the musician who had that training ... the ability to communicate with the Western audience."Request to buy this photo

Rajesh Kumar Singh | AP photoRavi Sharkar's death at the age of 92 is "...one of the biggest losses for the music world," said Kartic Seshadri, a Shankar protege, sitar virtuoso and music professor at the University of California, San Diego. "There's nothing more to be said."Request to buy this photo

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